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Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Reached & What This Means for Singapore’s...

Free trade agreements (FTA) are as crucial to Singapore as water. If you want to know the value of water, try not drinking water for one day. The thirst will make you appreciate water more. In the same...

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The Tortoise & the Hare: How Investors Can Avoid the Hot Hand Fallacy

Investing is not necessarily an activity where the smartest person always wins the race. Just like the parable about the tortoise and the hare, there are times where being slow and steady wins you the...

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Lessons for Singapore from China’s Third Equity Meltdown in Seven Months

China is the second largest economy in the world. There used to a saying that if the United States catches a flu, the world will get sick. This analogy is now being used on China now. The fact that...

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3 Reasons Why Oil Prices Have Fallen over 70% and the Winners & Losers from...

In this article, we are going to look at the causes behind the 74% plunge in oil prices from a peak of $106.78 per barrel in June 2014 to a low of $27.10 on January 20. In order to give you an...

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5 Reasons Why the Bank of Japan Introduced Negative Interest Rates

Negative interest rates used to be an exclusively European affair where only the central banks of Europe, Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden dared to venture. Japan became the first Asian country to...

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2 Reasons Why the Fed Refused to Raise Interest Rates This Month

The Federal Reserve last raised interest rates by 25 basis points on 16 December 2015. That was the first rate hike in nearly a decade. During that historic meeting, the Fed framed market expectations...

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MAS moves to protect Singapore’s economy with surprise easing

The Singapore economy grew at a respectable rate of 1.8% on a quarterly basis for Q1/2016 which was above analysts’ expectations of 1.6%. Despite the decent growth, the Monetary Authority of Singapore...

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5 reasons to be bullish about Singtel even with the entry of a fourth telco

The telecommunication landscape in Singapore is likely to get more challenging for the incumbent companies of Singtel, M1 and StarHub. Liberty Wireless entered the market recently on 5 May 2016 with...

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How social proof & scarcity destroy our CPFIS investments

Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, declared recently that the CPF Investment Scheme (CPFIS) is not fit for purpose. Over the past ten years, 45% of investors lost money and 80%...

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Distilling the essence of Benjamin Graham in 2016

Benjamin Graham is a legendary investor who pioneered the idea of deep value investing. Graham is someone who walked the talk by putting his ideas into practice with his successful Graham-Newman...

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Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Reached & What This Means for Singapore’s...

Free trade agreements (FTA) are as crucial to Singapore as water. If you want to know the value of water, try not drinking water for one day. The thirst will make you appreciate water more. In the same...

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The Tortoise & the Hare: How Investors Can Avoid the Hot Hand Fallacy

Investing is not necessarily an activity where the smartest person always wins the race. Just like the parable about the tortoise and the hare, there are times where being slow and steady wins you the...

View Article

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Lessons for Singapore from China’s Third Equity Meltdown in Seven Months

China is the second largest economy in the world. There used to a saying that if the United States catches a flu, the world will get sick. This analogy is now being used on China now. The fact that...

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3 Reasons Why Oil Prices Have Fallen over 70% and the Winners & Losers from...

In this article, we are going to look at the causes behind the 74% plunge in oil prices from a peak of $106.78 per barrel in June 2014 to a low of $27.10 on January 20. In order to give you an...

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5 Reasons Why the Bank of Japan Introduced Negative Interest Rates

Negative interest rates used to be an exclusively European affair where only the central banks of Europe, Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden dared to venture. Japan became the first Asian country to...

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2 Reasons Why the Fed Refused to Raise Interest Rates This Month

The Federal Reserve last raised interest rates by 25 basis points on 16 December 2015. That was the first rate hike in nearly a decade. During that historic meeting, the Fed framed market expectations...

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MAS moves to protect Singapore’s economy with surprise easing

The Singapore economy grew at a respectable rate of 1.8% on a quarterly basis for Q1/2016 which was above analysts’ expectations of 1.6%. Despite the decent growth, the Monetary Authority of Singapore...

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5 reasons to be bullish about Singtel even with the entry of a fourth telco

The telecommunication landscape in Singapore is likely to get more challenging for the incumbent companies of Singtel, M1 and StarHub. Liberty Wireless entered the market recently on 5 May 2016 with...

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How social proof & scarcity destroy our CPFIS investments

Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, declared recently that the CPF Investment Scheme (CPFIS) is not fit for purpose. Over the past ten years, 45% of investors lost money and 80%...

View Article

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Distilling the essence of Benjamin Graham in 2016

Benjamin Graham is a legendary investor who pioneered the idea of deep value investing. Graham is someone who walked the talk by putting his ideas into practice with his successful Graham-Newman...

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